Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Donald Alan Morrison <dmorison@phenry.ssd.k12.wa.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing 2.1.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960404152051.2134D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960404090648.12426A-100000@phenry.ssd.k12.wa.us>
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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Donald Alan Morrison wrote: > I recently purchased the Walnut Creek Distribution of FreeBSD v2.1.0 and > found that my cdrom drive is currently unsupported. So, faithfully I > decided to install the essentials by floppy for the time being; :( Ugly. > but during > the install for some reason, I was not prompted for the COMPAT1X and > COMPAT20 dists (even though they were marked for the install). That's strange. > Luckily > the install went through anyways. So afterwards I mounted the COMPAT1X on > fd0 and took a look at "install.sh". I took the line with the tar command > and used it to extract the files manually. MY QUESTION IS, the tar > program took about 2-3 seconds to unpack the files; if I copied the line > from "install.sh" exactly, do you think I successfully installed the > files? Most likely, if the line looked something like this: tar xzf - | cat compat1x.* Try replacing the 'x' in the command with a 't' and see what directory the files landed in. They should be in /compat1x and /compat20, respectively. (I'm running on a pentium 100 with 16 megs edo dram and a 512KB > pipeline burst cache, so I'm not sure if it could have unpacked the files > THAT fast or not.) It probably did. the package is pretty tiny. > What could I do to check this? And if I reenter the > /stand/sysinstall program, how can I continue the install of other files > without "fdisking" my existing setup? Also, should my cdrom drive stay > unsupported, what would be the best way to get EVERYTHING installed? (No > way am I copying both cds to floppy!:) Check the directories. If you really want to run sysinstall again (not the best of ideas, but that isup for debate), then don't go through the install - jump directly to the post install screen, which I believe is an option on the main menu. you can do it all manually though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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